Jonathan Calm

Jonathan Calm is a visual artist and assistant professor in Photography at the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Calm's interests include urbanism and public housing, and his most recent work focuses on the representation of African-American automobility through performance, reenactment and portraiture. Calm's art practice is international in scope and has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including 'Frequency' at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2005); 'Role Play' at the Tate Britain (2006); 'Black Is, Black Ain’t' at the University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society (2008); 'Streetwise' at the Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid (2008) and the Chelsea Art Museum (2011); 'Reconstruction' at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia (2013); 'Rooted Movements' at LMAKprojects in New York City (2014); and 'Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957' at the ICA in Boston (2015). Numerous publications including The New York Times, Art in America, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Artforum and The Washington Post, have given significant mention to his work.

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